Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) - March 6th, 2007

This morning I took the bus to Allahabad, 3 hours from Varanasi, to visit and also getting closer to Delhi. Here, two holy rivers meet, the Ganges and the Yamuna, so a lot of pilgrims also come to bathe in their waters.
I went to the railway station to buy a ticket and travel on Thursday night to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal.
This afternoon I took a long walk by Mohama Gandhi Road. Big boulevards, McDonalds, Gothic cathedral (they said it is closed most of the time), lots of pastry shops and a movie theater, so I went in to see the Wedding Hindu way. The movies here are 3 hours long - too long for me, so at the intermission, I left. Enough to see the family arrangements and the courting that takes place with the couple.